Aliens: Total War A Possibility?

Throughout history we have seen wars started over the littlest things imaginable. So if a war can be waged based on the “face that launched a thousand ships” then I can write a blog post based on a little tweet that reads:

“Great visit to Creative Assembly one of UK’s best developers. Now hiring for new blockbuster based on Alien”

This tweet is from Ed Vaizey, a UK member of parliament, and it has me going nuts! You see, I’m a huge fan of Creative Assembly who develops the Total War franchise which is a real-time strategy game that mixes a turn-based campaign with real-time battles.

Now in March of 2011 I wrote a post titled “Total War: Where Do We Go From Here?” (check out SNG-IGN's comment in that post) During that post I quickly went through the various games of the Total War franchise before offering some opinions on where Creative Assembly might go from their latest venture, at the time, Empire: Total War. As we all know by now, The Creative Assembly revisited their first game and released Shogun 2: Total War.

Of course I had entertained the thought of doing another similar blog post, talking about what game Creative Assembly would do next, but given what the tweet says this is something I wouldn’t have considered even if I had written the post. After all, who would have thought that Creative Assembly would even consider making a game based on the Alien film franchise?

Interestingly enough I also hadn’t taken into account that Sega owns them. But PC Gamer, in their article, pointed out that Sega also owns the rights to the Alien games and so this could really be happening. The real question now is whether Creative Assembly will do a RTS game, like their Total War franchise, or perhaps an action game like Spartan: Total Warrior which was released for the console.

Whatever they decide to do, though, I am definitely interested. Aliens: Total War, this is what I’ll be calling it, will certainly get some press and who knows, perhaps Creative Assembly will make an official announcement at E3. While I am partial to it being a RTS game I wouldn’t be averse to another action-adventure game as well.

Guess I’ll just have to wait until there is some official information released about this game.

So what do you think? Would you be interested in playing a Aliens-based RTS game or prefer an action-adventure game? Or maybe something entirely different?